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-Born on 29th January 1850 at Greenwich but emigrated to New South Wales in 1866.
+#redirect [[Lawrence Hargrave]]
-Employed as a engineer-draughtsman
-Joined the Sydney Observatory
-From 1883 he dedicated his efforts to aviation living off a private income. He is famous for his design of box kite which became very successful and was the basis of many other designs including those of [[Samuel Cody]]. He refused to patent this design and made it freely available to other experimenters.
-He gave two lectures which are detailed in the [[Aeronautical Journal]] in April 1897 and July 189.
-Returned to England in 1899 but went back to Australia after six months.
-He died on 16th July 1915
-== See Also ==
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-== Sources of Information ==
-<references/>
-* Early Aviation at Farnborough by Percy B. Walker. Published in 1971.
-[[Category: Automotive Pioneer]]